Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tester every waking hour, often picks out a good product instinctively. He often tries out new products on his family. When he brought home a packa.ge of Minute Spanish rice, the family circle liked it so well that he had to go back for more. When he discovered that General Foods was market-testing the rice, "I thought to myself, now what the hell for? How scientific can you get?" Market testing stopped the next morning, and the product has gone on to become an excellent seller. "At General Foods," says Mortimer, "we try to cultivate a healthy spirit...
Glatsky in the Future. What lies in the future for General Foods and the rest of the industry? One of the industry's widely heralded ventures, frozen soups, which were pioneered by Campbell's, are not going too well. Heinz dropped them after a brief try; General Foods so far has avoided the field. Dietetic foods have shown little growth, and General Foods has only one product in the dietetic line (D-Zerta), is considering plugging it among complexion-conscious teenagers. The industry agrees that geriatric foods are a promising and challenging field, but so far oldsters have...
...revolution has already gone beyond the mere limits of natural food. General Foods' Tang is a completely artificial product created in the laboratory. Scientists have already isolated 30 volatile elements in coffee, some day may be able to produce artificial coffee that tastes just as good as the real thing. Charlie Mortimer, a "show me" man, admits that there are some practical limits to the revolution in the kitchen. Says he: "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of a steak. I want my steak...
MILITARY PROCUREMENT will be drastically changed after Jan. 1. The Army will buy all general supplies for the three military services, and the Navy will purchase all industrial materiel...
...Whistler died in a cholera epidemic, James was old enough to enter West Point. In a chemistry exam, Cadet Whistler identified silicon as a gas, and West Point decided to do without him. "If silicon had been a gas," Whistler used to say, "I would have been a major-general...